LOL no. Bots can pass Captchas, but I hit the back button.
I’ve spent, collectively, probably days of my life clicking squares with just the tip of a handlebar or the faintest shade of the edge of a stoplight, only for bots to still be able to get past it.
The whole point of captchas is to train bots. Did you think they were all road object and optical character recognition based because those are the categories humans really excel at?
No, but it raises the difficulty bar for an attacker.
To expand on what others here have said: no they can’t, and there was a recent article here on Lenny taking about how AI (which I know is different from average bots) has figured out most of the visual captcha types.
there was a recent article here on Lenny taking about how AI
Funny you’d mention Lenny, he’s also a bot! A good one though!
No, CAPTCHAs can and will be bypassed. But you can make it expensive for bot hosters using PoW CAPTCHAs instead of normal ones. It’s also better privacy-wise.
